2. Closing local hospital services and making you travel further for your care. Patients closer to hospitals live longer. Without cheap and reliable public transport people are less likely to access the healthcare they need.

Last year more than 17,000 signed a petition to stop Kent County Council cut “socially necessary” busses serving our most vulnerable. How easily would you be able to get to hospital in an emergency?

3. Encouraging family members to look after people at home rather than in hospital.However,charities suggest that there might be as many as 300,000 lonely elderly people living in Kent. Identifying who has family they can rely on is a difficult and delicate task.

5. Discharging people from hospital sooner, thereby making them more reliant on care in the community. The adult social care budget in Kent has been cut by 33 per cent since 2010. Even Conservative Leader of Kent County Council describes services as at ‘breaking point”.

6. Selling off our NHS. Care services will be bundled up and delivered by huge US-style private health agencies called Accountable Care Organisations. They will only be accountable to those who commission them, they will decide who gets care and who doesn’t.